tidily needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tidily is the highest-scoring word from tidily, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tidily — and it is tidily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tidily produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idly, idyl, and tidy, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tidily plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tidily and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tidily is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in tidily carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tidily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tidily is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tidily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tidily, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tidily earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in tidily produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.